A Child's Bible

When I was a child, my parents kept a collection of Bibles in a glass cabinet in our living room.

They were all different sizes and colours, some new and some old. I loved pulling them out and laying them in a row on the carpet. I would smell their leather covers and flip through their delicate pages.

On my sixth birthday, I received a Bible of my very own. I took it to Sunday school with me every week.

Through the years of my childhood, I memorised verses, learned the stories of heroic prophets and godly men and women, and discovered what it truly meant to desire a personal relationship with Jesus.

In adulthood, one verse in the Book of Psalms has been especially powerful for me: Psalm 119:15–16, which says, ‘I will meditate on your precepts, and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.’

The psalmist clearly had a passion for the word of God that I desired in my own life.

As I have prayerfully studied God’s word, his truth has provided hope and encouragement to me.

I have become more capable of withstanding temptation and false teaching, and more and more I have been moulded into the woman that he wants me to be.

Prayer: Dear Lord, help us take the time to meditate on your word, even during the busiest of days. Amen